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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

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The good befriend themselves.
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Acceptance Friendship Goodness
A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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Mindset Peace War
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Doctor Medicine Need Wisdom
Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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Darkness Horror Myself
Kindness will always attract kindness.
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Attraction Kindness One Liner
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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Expose Hide Reality Time
Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Accuse Blame Charge Silence Support
The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Inscription Myself Promise Water Woman
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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Cure Evil Fate Pain Try Yourself
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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Drink Himself Man Thirst Wisdom
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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Best Light Live Thinking
Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
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Chance Day Fear Live Man Rule
Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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Alone Bad Day Man Reveal Time
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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Lying Ruin Sorry True
Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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God Himself Life Live
One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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Freedom Love Oneself Pain Weight Word

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

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